Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-08
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
EVILS OF IMMIGRATION
Discussed BY The Christian
Conference.
WOOL GROWERS SPEAK OUT
In Vigorous Terms Against
Cleveland.
EUROPE'S EYES On RUSSIA.
Pastor Downs Suing For
His Salary.
EUROPE's EYES On RUSSIA.
EVILS OF FREE IMMIGRATION.

| EVILS OF FREE REFRIGERATION.
An Interesting Topic Discussed by
| the General christian Conference.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. IA general Christian
conference under the auspices and direction
of the Evangelical Alliance of the United
States, of which William E. Dodge of New
| York is president and Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong
of New York Is general secretary, opened in
| this city this morning in the Congregational
church at the corner Of Tenth and G streets,
/ northwest. The conference met in response
to call issued by the Alliance several months
since and signed by Presidents McCosh of
Princeton, Hopkins of Williams, Anderson of
Rochester university. Gilman of John Hop
| kins, Dwight of Yale, Rev. Drs. Phillips
Brooks of Boston, CuyIer and Storrs of
Brooklyn, Ormiston and Howard Crosby of
/ New York and large number of other emil
nent clergymen and laymen from all of the
| evangelical denominations of this country.
Its object is to discuss measures upon which
| all these denominations may be brought to
unite to meet certain new and pressing emer
| gencies which have arisen in connection with
| the great increase of wealth, business, immi-
| grafton, the changed relations of labor and
| capital and the great and growing percentage
| of our population who are not church mem
bers or attendants. President Dodge called
| the meeting to order and expounded the duty
/ of the churches toward non churchgoers.
The attendance at the afternoon session
was very large. Justice Strong of the United
States Supreme court, who presided, said
! that there never had been time when such
| a rallying and uniting of all that is best in
| the church was more imperatively needed
| than now He introduced Prof. Hialmer Fl.
| Boyesen of Columbia college, who made
] short address upon the subject of immigra-
tion The constitution of the United States
he said was framed by men of Anglo~Saxon
origin for their own government and presup
poses the long political evolution to which
that race has been subjected. To presuppose
such Anglo-Saxon virtues moderation,
self restraint and sense of fair play of those
not having such anteeedents is absurd. I'm
migration which draws from the lower strata
of Europe is changing the character of the
people and gradually eliminating the virtues
which are indispensable to successful self
government change has come over the spirit
of the immigrant owing to the fact that he does
not improve his lot as much as formerly.
The Socialist and the Anarchist come to
avenge what they have suffered in Europe.
By their disloyal sentiment and hostility to
American institutions they disorganize and
weaken the State. The third estate, the in
dustrial class, is the governing class here.
But now tho fourth estate, the manual Ia
borers, who formerly framed no practical de-
mands, has raised its head and has begun to
contest with the third estate the directing
power in the country. Hence arise discon-
tent and social and economic commissions.
The speaker, although regretting the transfer
of power, did not see how with universal
suffrage and unrestricted immigration
it was to be averted. He believed the
time had arrived when our former policy of
1ndiscriminate absorption of foreign elements
of population would result in serious crisis.
The nation no longer is able to assimilate the
alien elements with sufficient rapidity. The
children of aliens make a terrible
exhibit in the statistics of pauperism and
crime. They constitute largely the hood
lums and roughs. The public schools have
intoxicated them with sense of indepen-
dence without impressing upon them the re-
sponsibilities of liberty. The employers of
labor, he said, are able to defeat strikes by
means of immigration. More competition
with American labor enters in a
week through Castle Garden than
the prisons turn out in year.
Protection is farce long as the unbarred
fioodgate remains open. immigration has
the effect of lowering the grade of American
civilization by introducing an undue compe-
tition with people who demand less of life.
He had known Hungarians who saved money
on wages of 81 day. They changed their
linen once month and picked their dinner
out of ash barrels. Competition with such
people was Impossible ior seI-respectlng Ia
borers. People who live like pigs will also
presently behave like pigs. Prof. Boyesen
said in conclusion that he was in favor of
law which would make consular inspection
and a certificate of good character an indis-
pensable prerequisite to immigration. A
in the course of which S. L. Bald
win, of Boston, said law requir-
ing consuls to certify to the good
character of all immigrants might be good
thing, but the exclusion of Chinaman as a
Chinaman is an abomination. He did not
believe in the free admission of such for
eigners as those who mobbed the Chinese at
Rock Springs and the exclusion of such
peaceful Chinese as those who were the vic
Tins of that outrage.
An interesting paper was read by Presi-
dent Merrill E. Gates of Rutgers college
upon ftThe misuse OF wealth" and the sub
ject was further discussed by Robert G. Mat
lock, secretary of the Protestant Episcopal
Education society. Bishop J. F. Hurst, LII.
D., of Buffalo,5 addressed the members of
the Alliance upon the Infringement of the
masses from the church" The cause of the
estrangement Of the people is the antagon-
ism of the foreigners to our evan
gelical life. We committed a
crime when we prohibited the immigration
of the Chinaman and only did it because he
had no vote. The Sunday aids the elevation
| because the people imagine they have in it a
spiritual neglect of the foreigners we ground
out the Anarchist. Sabbath discretion is
also powerful in alternating the people and
| the curse of the saloon is perhaps the most
| potent of all. Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D. D.,
| pastor of the Bethany PRESBYTERIAN church,
Philadelphia, John Wanamaker's) continued
| the discussion of the same subject and said
| the tendency of the rich is to get far as
| they can from the unwholesome and disagree
| able surroundings of the poor.
The church was crowded at the evening
session, which was presided over by Senator
| Colquitt of Georgia. The 6rst paper read
| was by Bishop Coke of Buffalo, N. Y, on
| t'Ultramontanism." He said if he were
Roman Catholic he should impress "Galli-
canism" instead of U1tramontanism on his
| followers. UItramontanism was simply Jes-
| uitism. Let us be Romanists, he said, but
let at the same time be Americans and the
Jesuit cannot be an American, because he
| owes allegiance to a foreign power. The
American Roman Catholics, he continued,
should demand of Rome the same
R ss French WHICH Catholics sss sEsn'sd ame
can priest should be compelled to
CROSS the ocean to answer to an italian court.
Rev. J. M. King delivered an address show
| ing the difference between Roman Catholi-
eism and Jesuitism. Rev. DR.. R. S. McAr
thur, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church
of Kentucky, read paper entitled 'The
Saloon" The saloon, he said. is use
less and hurtful, welding for
evil purposes political power and
| wealth. He assailed the personal liberty
party, which he declares takes the linguistic
livery of heaven with which to serve the
devil He heartily favored every true legal
means to restrict the traffic of alcohol. The
days proceedings closed with an address by
the Rev. A G. Haygood, of Georgia, on edu-
cation in the South and the need Of more
public schools.
HEAVY DAMAGE BY FIRE.
A Quarter of Million Loss In Mont
| gOmery.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. THE largest
fire in Montgomery's history broke out on
tha east side of Commerce street at O'Clock